Holy shit…Vandy’s 3-0! That doesn’t happen very often! The egg that I thought we’d lay this weekend against Rice after beating South Carolina last night didn’t happen. I don’t “believe” yet–I’ve seen WAY too many late-season collapses destroy bowl hopes in the past–but one thing I’ve noticed that’s different this year–we’re not sitting on leads (and therefore playing not to lose), and we’re not giving in during the second half. Those are both things that winning teams do.

I’m still not quite 100% recovered from the Super Show. It’s not that I partied that hard there–it has more to do with a lack of sleep, and returning back to work without much time to recover. But now that this weekend is here, I’m hoping to catch up a little and try to get rid of the dark circles under my eyes.

In the meantime, I wanted to share the groovy commission of Noel that Danielle Corsetto sprung on me–not only is it a SubCulture character, but also it goes perfectly with my Girls with Guns sketchbook theme, which now numbers about sixty. Thanks, Danielle!

If you want to peruse the rest of them, you can see them all together in my Comic Sketch Gallery site.

I’m back from the CGSSS. It was quite the fun weekend. I’m estimating the attendance to be somwhere in the 200 range or so, give or take, most of which, of course, being active members of the Comic Geek Speak forum. Despite the relatively small crowd, I did pretty well, moving lots of copies of my books and coming home with significantly fewer copies. Note, however, that this does NOT mean that my suitcase itself was lighter, because naturally I bought stuff to fill the void.

The fun part about CGSSS, of course, is the social aspect, and trips to Third and Spruce were definitely some of the highlights. Hopefully there aren’t too many incriminating pictures of me out there to be had. I think I behaved myself pretty well, so I’m somewhat confident. It’s always good to see old friends, particularly in the con environment–Brent Schoonover, Danielle Corsetto, Dave Dwonch, Shawn Pryor, Erica Hesse, Steve Bryant, Katie Cook, the CGS crew, and everyone else. Special kudos to the aforementioned Dave and Erica, plus Bob Bretall, for lugging my carless-ass around.

It’s definitely a show worth returning to, and I’ll do my best, even though it’s tough for me to get to shows during the school year.

It’s tough being a Vanderbilt fan. Trust me on that one. I was a freshman at Vandy in 1988, and graduated in 1992. In my time as a Vandy student and alum, we have yet to have a winning season or go to a bowl. In fact, our last winning season was 1982. It’s far and away the longest streak of consecutive losing seasons in the NCAA. And we’ve found amazing ways to lose during that period, snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory so many times that I’ve lost count. So wins are precious. SEC wins are something to get excited about. And SEC wins over ranked opponents are even that much more sweet.

We beat USC Thursday. It was our first home win against a ranked opponent since 1992, when we beat Ole Miss. We also beat the ‘Cocks last year when they were ranked sixth in the nation. They were 24th this week. That means it’s the first time we’ve beaten the same ranked opponent in two consecutive years since 1937!

I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, but SubCulture has finally joined the 21st century and has converted to ComicPress. I, as many of you know, am somewhat code-challenged, and the learning curve for ComicPress was a little too tough for me.

Fortunately, I have friends in high places, and my old pal Donovan came to the rescue and got the initial code taken care of, converted things to Linux, and got the basic layout planned. From there, it was pretty easy to update everything, add all of the strips, pictures, and pages, and get it looking the way it looks now. I’m very happy with the results, and I hope you will be too.

One nice addition is that now you can leave comments regarding either strips or my blog entries. So if you like a strip (or don’t like it, for that much), feel free and leave a note. Hopefully this way we can increase our readership and develop a fairly loyal following, like all of those webstrips out there that I look up to (see the links at the left for a list of them-those.

So sit back and enjoy the new look of the site! I know I will–it’s a hell of a lot easier to update this way.